Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished

People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.

After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.